Peer Gynt is a charming but lazy and arrogant peasant youth who leaves home to seek his fortune. Confident of success, he has one disastrous adventure after another. In one, he attends the wedding of a wealthy young woman he himself might have married. There he meets Solveig, who falls in love with him.
Adaptations (2)
Peer Gynt has been adapted into 2 films, from 1915 to 1941.
Peer Gynt1915 · film · 50 min · dir. Oscar Apfel, Raoul Walsh · IMDb ↗A fantasy from Ibsen's verse drama. Ne'er-do-well and braggart Peer Gynt has many adventures in varied countries, making and losing money, gaining fortune at others' expense, until he finds salvation in the love of Solveig.
Peer Gynt1941 · film · 100 min · dir. David Bradley · IMDb ↗IMDb6.0Based on the play by Henrik Ibsen, Gynt, an imaginative young man looked down upon by most everybody, is banished from his village for running away with a bride on her wedding day.
